Welcome to the Marriage Council cast. We have a question from John here who writes,

my wife always asks if she looks fatter. Do you have any advice on how to answer this?

Well that's a tough one. Now John your wife is counting on you for an unbiased answer to that question

so it's important to remove the

guess work by saying something along the lines up there's only one way to find out

and then pulling out one of these mass calculation devices and comparing that

data to your wife's weight at a more desirable day.

It's also important to keep track of the weight fluctuations month by month for situations such as this.

She pops on the scale and now we can look at the data, accounting for a water weight

fluctuation if she's on her period,

and then put that data into a graphical presentation such as I have here for my wife, including

her daily caloric intake and literature on the dangers associated with obesity.

Now I should say skills are not always necessary though.

I remember a few months ago when I was doing my analysis I asked the wife to send me

your macro so I can add them to my PowerPoint presentation at which point she told me she hasn't been tracking those macro.

Well there's your problem.

So naturally I just ask her the follow-up question of why she's chosen to waste both our time with questions we already know the answer to.

You might be saying well I don't have her past weight data or body fat percentage changes.

Of course.

That's why we always recommend you start collecting this data early and often,

whether that be running her a bath and tracking the water displacement changes,

having her fill out a fake government census report, or even placing an unsuspecting scale

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